Suspect charged in Jerry’s Groceries and Liquor robbery

A 23-year-old man arrested after a standoff last Saturday with police at a vacant Maumee Street house was arraigned Friday on armed robbery and firearms charges.

Markieth Issiah Washington was arraigned by video from the Lenawee County Jail before Judge James E. Sheridan. A $500,000 bond was continued pending an April 1 preliminary examination.

Lenawee County Prosecutor Burke Castleberry announced Friday he had authorized a warrant charging Washington in a March 12 robbery of Jerry’s Groceries and Liquor on West Beecher Street in Madison Township. He is charged with armed robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, felony firearm possession, possession of a firearm by a felon and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.

No charges have been filed yet in connection with the police standoff at the house on West Maumee Street in Adrian. Police from several agencies surrounded the house late in the afternoon on March 16 after Lenawee County sheriff’s deputies reported cornering the suspect in the Jerry’s robbery. Washington surrendered shortly after midnight on March 17 after tear gas reached his hiding place in the attic of the house.

Washington was held on parole violation charges while an investigation of the robbery was continued by Madison Township police. Washington was reported absconded from a parole office in Wayne County.